Queen Raidne

What if there is no spam, and we are just all

Wait, so... somewhere, in an alternate meta-universe, we're characters in some RP, posting in Spam?

My head hurts. Get me vodka, cupcakes, and a prom dress.

Great Minds Like a Think

Really, English? Do you have to start branching into different grammatical rulesets and word definitions? This is like British English insisting that the proper sentence is "IBM are running strong," and American English insisting "IBM is running strong." As hilarious as I find it that the United States therefore treats corporations as individuals even while talking about them, the difference is frustrating.

Or like our two definitions for "biscuit" and "chips". Or like "pram" vs. "stroller". Enough already. Stop diverging into two separate languages! Please?

Patchwork: A Multiversal Factions NRP

Honest question: has the number of new players and factions scared people off? Because I was planning on keeping this RP open to new players for eternity, but if you guys are uncomfortable with that, I can arbitrarily cap it at 10 active players (I think that's equal to the number of people interested/currently in this RP). The reason I bring it up is that I've noticed that the IC has been inactive for a good two days or so, while the OOC's got a new post around every 12 hours or so.

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|Kabensaal:

I can't help you. I know next to nothing about (Wheel of Time?), other than my friends insisting that I read it.

Nerevarine:

Looks okay. I'm still doing research (totally not reading all of homestuck because that's the only way I can make sense of anything). One note is that the hexes are supposed to be a mile wide at their widest point, but then, I already broke that rule accidentally.

Meanwhile, in Opposite World Florida

...context, please?

Another Galactic/Space Nation RP?

I'll reiterate my interest in single-solar system.

Another Galactic/Space Nation RP?

Can we do a near-er future, pre-FTL RP? Like a colonizing the solar system thing? I've been wanting to do that for a while. I'm also willing to help GM if you'd like help, somehow. I can make charts. Or come up with some ideas. I'm in a lull; most of the RP's I'm in seem to be winding down (notable exception: the one that's starting up).

I beat dead island

...good job?

Spam Sub-Subforum

I've been noticing a lot of posts that aren't quite up to Spam's highly established standards. This topic, a.k.a. Sub-Subforum, is a place to post such things.

Spamception away.

Patchwork: A Multiversal Factions NRP

It's (mostly) completely up to you. This RP relies upon roleplaying rather than dice-rolling.

Patchwork: A Multiversal Factions NRP

MrShoe said
Quick question: How, if at all, do radios work?

As normal. Obviously, unless you've got a radio tower handy, you won't be able to transmit as far.

I dug into it a bit and decided that the ionosphere on Patchwork is quite healthy at the moment - we're in a peak period of solar activity - so you can go ahead and use the whole HF range up to 30 MHz around the clock. Just in case that actually means anything to you.

Or do you mean how do radios work in general?

Okay, let's see what I can remember. Something to do with resonant frequencies. If you set up a circuit with an inductor and a capacitor, the capacitor fills up with energy, and then the inductor fills a magnetic field with energy, and it kinda goes back and forth like that. Meanwhile, light - being a series of oscillating electric fields that cause oscillating magnetic fields that in turn cause oscillating electrical fields and so on and so forth - happens to cause an electric current if the right frequency of light hits an inductor-capacitor circuit (provided the capacitor and inductor are at the proper capacitance and inductance). Point being that such a circuit could detect particular frequencies of light in a predictable manner. You can also hook up an amp-meter to the thing to figure out how strong (amplitude) of a signal its receiving.

At this point, the only thing to do is to figure out how to encode communication into light waves. So you've got amplitude modulation (AM), which encodes audio frequency (pitch) in the amplitude (strength) of a light wave at any given moment. You've also got frequency modulation (FM), which encodes audio frequency to a corresponding light frequency. Or you could just go old school and use morse code.

That's roughly how a radio works.

PS: Oh yeah! We use radio waves (themselves part of the electromagnetic spectrum [far more red than, um, red is]) to do all this communication for reasons. Thus the term "radio".

Maxxorlord said
I believe Raidne is asking what your Russians were doing when they were transported to the new world. I wager she's asking this because your hex information states that your faction is in the middle of no where.

Maxxorlord's got it. I'm just curious why your Russians are in that particular chunk of land when they get teleported. Also, you might be interested in http://www.alternatehistory.com/Discussion/.